Derby Talk

Derby Talk is a forum for Pinewood Derby, Awana Grand Prix, Kub Kar Rally, Shape N Race Derby, Space Derby, Raingutter Regatta and other similar races where a child and an adult work together to create a race vehicle and a lot of fun and memories

My district is running a pretty poor race thus far. I had to bug people via e-mail to see if there was even going to be a race. In mid March they finally said yes, but had not rules, time or date. My late March they said it was postponed. By a week ago I assumed it was going to die on the vine and began to help my son modify his car for the mid-America. Well now its up again for mid May and we are out of town. Apart from my general frustration, what are your district rules on allowing one scout to register a fellow scout's car who cannot attend in person? What about dropping the car off with the district staff?

Wotamalo Rules historically allowed a scout to race a car built by another scout. I don't know if it ever happened, because it is the scout who races the car who is competing and assumed to be the owner of the car. An "absentee driver" does not make sense for us, since the owner/driver performs all aspects of car handling during the races, including queue wait time (mostly very short queues.)

Not sure this is comparable, but how fast does an Indy car run if its driver is elsewhere?